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Pruning a Passel of Pals!! (546)

Fierce Battles! Everyone's Respective Rival!

Having passed the appeal process in the Wallace Cup, the gang all move onto the next round; the battles. However, in reflection of their respective journeys, the gang get pumped for the battles. Will they all get through the next round?

Can I just say in relation to the recent Venasaur news that while Bulbasaur is my favorate Pokemon I am not annoyed at May having a Venasaur. For one thing it got some time to shine as a Bulbasaur in Houen with wins and loses unlike Snorunt who should have won a battle with someone other than Team Rocket before evolving.

Second this is a different situation to Ash's Bulbasaur who like Pikachu doesn't want to evolve. If this happened while she was in Houen I might have been bothered but May has had this Pokemon for a while now so I was only suprised.

The reason I'm mentioning this is because every time an evolution comes up people turn to me expecting a rant as if I hate every evolutions when these situations are completly different from Snorunt. May has been away for a while, evolved Pokemon are not to be expected.

How lame to give him a Lanturn, its preevo kicked out Misty in the whirl cup cuz of its electrical attacks. Now Buizel loses to it, just cause of the DEMWater/electric type >_<

Why? Lanturn has gotten quite a shaft and I'm happy to see it getting some spotlight.

Originally Posted by Gaiash

Can I just say in relation to the recent Venasaur news that while Bulbasaur is my favorate Pokemon I am not annoyed at May having a Venasaur. For one thing it got some time to shine as a Bulbasaur in Houen with wins and loses unlike Snorunt who should have won a battle with someone other than Team Rocket before evolving.

Second this is a different situation to Ash's Bulbasaur who like Pikachu doesn't want to evolve. If this happened while she was in Houen I might have been bothered but May has had this Pokemon for a while now so I was only suprised.

The reason I'm mentioning this is because every time an evolution comes up people turn to me expecting a rant as if I hate every evolutions when these situations are completly different from Snorunt. May has been away for a while, evolved Pokemon are not to be expected.

Part of me is happy to see you're finally starting to change but I know deep down you are annoyed at this.

All throughout Hoenn, whenever somebody brought it up you'd get so annoyed at them. Then, when she left Bulbasaur at Oaks you acted like this was the icing on the cake indicating neither Bulbasaur will never evolve. Here we are, only 70 episodes and the thing evolved twice! Thats called super-fast evolution which you are stricly against.

And knock off this delusional thought on Snorunt not winning a battle yet still evolving. Remember, anime /=/ games. Pokemon don't need to battle to evolve. We've seen so many filler Pokemon evolve to save its friends and trainers. Plus, during the time it was a Snorunt, it did heavy duty training. It is for that reason Snorunt evolved. Why don't you understand that?

The girls are seen talking, thier's a rukus or something in Ash's room, he goes out for a walk and sees Azelf.(only he sees it alot longer than Dawn saw Mespirit)
Returns and talks about it with Dawn who brings up how she saw mespirit, May mentions something about Lake Acuilty, dunno much else here.
Contest time, Dawn's Beunary kicks the crap out of reused school boy's Wailmer, Ash beats a Kecleon with Buizel, Zoey beats a mereep(but with what i dunno)and May apparently got Skitty back as it beat an Exeggutor.
Jessie's still emo about not passing the appeals(you had it coming.) James and Meowth pull out a camera cheering her up, as she dones another outfit.
Second round, Dawn beats a pelliper with pachirisu, next up is Ash vs Katio.
Katio sends out Lanturn, all are concerned as Dawn dexes it.
Katio uses Charge, Ash just stands there and loses points before using Sonicboom to get Lanturn out, Buizel gets payed back with an electrical move for that.
Kaito uses Ice Beam, Ash has Buizel charge it with Aqua Jet and uses Dawn's icicle spear technique against Lanturn. (more irony lol) during this Paul is seen again and is not impressed.
Lanturn hits Buizel with a water move, Buizel counters with water pulse but it's blocked with the same electric move as before, time runs out and Ash is out because he loses more points.
TR in disguise interview Ash after he loses, May kills Marril with Veunsaur(as if we haven't seen that already) and Zoey beats a Mothim with misdrevus, TR is still doing crap with thier camera as everyone has another night time talk.
Next Day Dawn and Kaito are up first, Dawn talks with piplup behind the curtain as the others watch from the locker room, piplup starts with bubble Kaito has Crawdaunt(way to smack corphish writers) use a move that is either ground or dark and the episode ends with the attacks creating an explosion and both pokemon are in the air.

Part of me is happy to see you're finally starting to change but I know deep down you are annoyed at this.

Not really, just shocked. Sure I'll miss that adorable thing but I'm not annoyed. It bothers me that every time anything evolves my name is brought up.

Originally Posted by Thriller

All throughout Hoenn, whenever somebody brought it up you'd get so annoyed at them.

Thats because when she first caught Bulbasaur it was young and was a later addition to May's team and if any of her Pokemon were going to evolve at this point it would be Torchic which did evolve.

Originally Posted by Thriller

Then, when she left Bulbasaur at Oaks you acted like this was the icing on the cake indicating neither Bulbasaur will never evolve.

Actually I recall being more pleased that the two Bulbasaurs would get to be together since they get along so well.

Originally Posted by Thriller

Here we are, only 70 episodes and the thing evolved twice! Thats called super-fast evolution which you are stricly against.

Not quite. You see its been a Bulbasaur and won a few times including in the Houen Grand Festival beforehand. Plus looking at May's progress in Johto she has three ribbons then look at Ash's progress he has beaten three Gym Leaders. The vtime she would have spent watching or helping Ash train for his journey is most likely being spent training her Pokemon. May is traveling alone remember, which means her Pokemon get all the training attention.

Originally Posted by Thriller

And knock off this delusional thought on Snorunt not winning a battle yet still evolving. Remember, anime /=/ games. Pokemon don't need to battle to evolve. We've seen so many filler Pokemon evolve to save its friends and trainers. Plus, during the time it was a Snorunt, it did heavy duty training. It is for that reason Snorunt evolved. Why don't you understand that?

Because I feel it didn't get enough time to shine as Snorunt, it spent all its screen time attempting Ice Beam.

Thanks for the link to the episode pics. Hopefully my source for the actual episode will be around tomorrow. Man, the more I see Dawn using Buneary, the more I'm really liking it. I'm really glad they didn't gloss over her battle like they did with Zoey's and May's.

And the return of Super-Skitty? Holy cow this was action packed! I missed that hyperactive little feline. Too bad we couldn't see it Doubleslap something. hehe

So it's Piplup vs Crawdaunt. Crawdaunt seems to be using Mud Shot at the end...not a Dark attack.

It was surprising that Ash lost by points, I figured that he and Buizel would have just been knocked out. But I'm suspecting that Dawn will be using Ambipom in the final though. If you look at the end of the episode, this appears that Piplup won't be fighting in the final, if in fact Dawn wins- which she proably will. But Ash kind of did it to himself, as he could have used Pikachu, or Turtwig or somebody else, as it showed, since all the rest of the main characters had used different pokemon in each round..... so mabey he got set up on or something, i don't know- but at least he lost this time....